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Spotify has introduced two new Messages features that let users see what friends are listening to in real time and invite them into shared listening sessions, signalling a deeper shift towards in-app social interaction. Wider Rollout By Early February The update, confirmed by Spotify on 7 January, adds Listening Activity and Request to Jam to … Continue reading Spotify Introduces Real-Time Listening Activity And Jam Requests
Google is reshaping Gmail around its Gemini AI models, introducing a personalised AI Inbox, natural-language AI Overviews in email search, and a wider rollout of writing and summarisation tools designed to help users manage rising email volumes more efficiently. To Help Manage Information Overload Google says more than 3 billion people now rely on its … Continue reading Company Check : Google Brings Gemini AI To Gmail With A Personalised Inbox
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a dedicated space for health and wellness conversations that allows users to link personal health data, raising fresh security and privacy concerns around highly sensitive information. OpenAI says more than 230 million people ask health-related questions on ChatGPT each week, prompting the creation of a separate Health environment with additional … Continue reading Security Stop-Press : ChatGPT Health Brings New Data Security Risks
An international research team has proposed using bacteria to bind Martian soil into concrete-like structures, offering a lower-energy and more sustainable way to build future habitats on Mars. What The New Research Is Proposing A new perspective paper published in Frontiers in Microbiology examines whether biomineralisation, a natural process driven by microorganisms, could be adapted … Continue reading Sustainability-in-Tech : Bacteria Could Turn Martian Soil Into Sustainable Building Material
This video shows how you can do away with paying for packages like Canva if you want to create visual storyboards, simply by asking Copilot to create your visual storyboards for you … it’s easier than ever! [Note – To Watch This Video without glitches/interruptions, It may be best to download it first] https://mklink-videos.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/2026-01-17-How+to-create-a-visual-story-using-365-Copilot.mp4
Streamline meeting planning in Outlook by creating a poll to find the perfect meeting time, boost attendee turnout, and save hours of back-and-forth emails. Here’s how: How to do it – Create a new meeting in Outlook. – Click ‘New Meeting’, then select ‘Scheduling Poll’ in the toolbar. – Enter meeting details and select 2 … Continue reading Tech Tip: Use Outlook To Find the Best Meeting Time Fast
People using cryptocurrency services in the UK are now required to provide personal and tax identifying details to cryptoasset platforms, following new reporting rules that came into force on 1 January 2026. What Are The Rules? From the start of 2026, anyone buying, selling, transferring, or exchanging cryptoassets through a cryptoasset service provider must provide … Continue reading HMRC Wants UK Crypto Buyers’ Details
In this Tech Insight, we look at why IPv6 is now 30 years old, what it was designed to solve, how it works in practice, and why it continues to matter to the modern internet despite never fully replacing IPv4. What Is IPv6? IPv6, or Internet Protocol version 6, is the system used to identify … Continue reading How The Thirty-Year-Old IPv6 Still Underpins the Internet’s Growth
The European Commission has renewed its decisions allowing personal data to flow freely between the EU and the UK, confirming that the UK’s data protection framework continues to meet EU standards despite recent legal changes. Applies To Two Frameworks The decision, announced on 19 December 2025, extends the EU’s existing data adequacy arrangements with the … Continue reading EU Renews UK Data Adequacy Decisions Until 2031
PostNord delivered its final letter in Denmark on 30 December 2025, bringing an end to more than four centuries of nationwide letter delivery after letter volumes collapsed as most communication moved online. Just Parcels Now For the first time since organised postal services were established in Denmark in 1624, the country’s historic national operator no … Continue reading Physical Letter Delivery Ends in Denmark